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(No M0991.)

N. S. STOWE'LL.

l HAIR FRONT. No. 279,999. Patented June 26, 1883.

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NELLIE s. sTowELL, or NEW YORK, N. Y.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Application tiled May Patent No. 279,990, dated June 26,1883.

2:2, 1883. (No model.)

. To (LU, whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, NELLIE S. STowELL, a citizen of the United States, residing at New York city, in the county of New York and State of New York, have invented certain new/ and useful Improvements in Ladies7 Head- Dresses; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description ofthe invention, such 4as will enable others skilled in the art to which it apperta-ins to make and use the same.

'My invention relates to an improved con- Istruction of hair fronts or waves composed of two parts, and the special manner of making the same. Herctofore theihair sections forming the front have been held together by means of tine netting, either white or black, and of the kind generally employed in the manufacture of wigs; or sections have been united either with or without the netting by metal clamps or springs. All such const-ructions, however, I have found cumbrous and expensive, and having, moreover, the. disadvantage of invariably indicating the artificial nature of the front on account of the joining material at the line of parting not being praetieally invisible.

rlhe object of my improvement accordingly is to so construct and arrange the hair sections forming the front or wave as that the natural scalp of the wearer will at all times show the entire length of the parting-line, as usual, and at the same time be held together and united at various points from front to rear at their inner edges, thus securing the several advantages of strength, lightness, and cheapness in manufacture, and especially, through the practical invisibility of the connect-ingmaterial employed, the natural appearance of the wave when in use.

Referring to the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 represents a plan top view of the device, showing the arrangement of the hair sections, and the large-mesh netting uniting the same. Fig. 2 represents a bottom view of the same, showing, in addition to the above, strengthening or foundation pieces of ordinary n et material. y

In the manufacture of my improvement, I use natural or artificial hair, crimped, curled, woven, ventilated, or otherwise prepared by well-known methods or processes.

The wave made in accordance with my invention consists of hair sect-ions A and B, Fig. 1, proif'ided with foumh tion-pieces C D, (shown in Fig. 2,) the same being connected at various points from vfront to rear at their inner .edges by means of a netting, E, of hair, silk, or other suitable material of a large mesh, and known to the trade as invisible netting, the wave-sections being separated from each other to the extent ot' an inch or so, so as to allow the natural hair of the wearer to show through the meshes of the netting, and exhibit the scalp and natural parting of said hair, and, moreover, by the facility afforded through the medium of the wide parting of the wave-sections of the natural hair commingling with the false at their respective edges, and thus losing itsidentity, as it were, whereby the imitation or illusion is greatly enhanced.

Having thus described my invention and the manner of constructing the same, I would have it understood that I am aware of the several constructions shown in the patents numbered, respectively, 187,198, 253,412, 263,665,

and 276 306 and to such or anv `wart of such,

1 a a l I make no claim, broadly; but

\Vhat I do claim as new and of my invention, and dcsireto secure by Letters Patent of the United States, is-

1. A. hairl front or wave composed ofscetions A I3, foundation-pieces C l), and largemesh invisible-netting connecting-piece E, all constructed andarranged substantially as described and shown.

In a hair front or wave composed, essentially, of two sections, the large-mesh. netting E, constructed and arranged as shown, for the purpose of connecting said sections at various points along the entire length of their inner edges by a comparativelyV invisible joining, and allowing at the Sametime of their separation to form a parting wider than -the natural part-ing of the hair of the wearer, substantially in the manner described, and for the purpose specified.

' .In testimony whereof I affix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

NELLIE S. STOWELL.

Titnessesz M. L. J osLvN, F. S. CAMPBELL, 

